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- Comment on [Chapter] Flying Witch - Ch. 89 - My Dad is a Troll Hunter - MangaDex 22 hours ago:
I read the first chapter a while back; was really cute! Would love to find the time to get caught up sometime.
- Comment on AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled 2 days ago:
Lol, definitely not making isekai light novels look good if this is what’s winning readers choice awards.
- Comment on [Episode] Umamusume: Cinderella Gray 2nd Cour • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray Part 2 - Episode 10 discussion 3 days ago:
Right?? I just finished the last three episodes today and was extremely surprised when the big race ended halfway through episode 22 and episode 23 featured a race entirely populated with characters we’ve never seen! I guess they’re following the Dan Da Dan school of ending a season: “This is how far we got with the source material. It’ll make sense later when you can watch it all at once.”
- Comment on Libs 4 days ago:
The Japanese are playing a whole different pronoun game from us. I swear I come across a new one every other month reading manga.
- Comment on Winter 2026 Anime Release Calendar (livechart.me Anime Sama) 6 days ago:
Really unfortunate that the one I’m most interested in, Medalist, is one of the last ones to start.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 02] 6 days ago:
Thanks for the recommendation; I enjoyed the first chapter and will hopefully be able to find the time to read it later.
- Comment on Winter 2026 Anime Season Kickoff and General Discussion Thread [2026, Week 02] 6 days ago:
I feel exactly the same way about Frieren. It’s not that the shounen battle stuff is done poorly - quite the opposite! But before the mage exam it felt like Frieren was a really unique story. Once the exam arc started it began to feel a tad generic (though still quite well-executed). I really liked the third exam though!
- Comment on [Episode] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Otona e no Kaidan - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago:
I’m glad they adapted most of my favorite chapters, but they didn’t quite get all of them. I wouldn’t mind the show ending this way if we got 3 or 4 episodes instead of just 2. At least what we did get was top-quality. I enjoyed myself immensely beginning-to-end.
- Comment on [Episode] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Otona e no Kaidan - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago:
Isn’t this slap a Gundam reference?
It absolutely is! But that’s not the first Gundam reference in Kaguya-sama: Love is War, nor is it the last. As far as I can tell the last one is the V-tuber plan notebook Papa Shirogane has. Image
As for the first, I think it’s when Karen sees Shirogane and Kaguya kissing at the end of season 3. I’m not certain though; it’s possible there’s another one even earlier.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 01] 1 week ago:
Even if you don’t read or watch it, since you have it physically anyways I’d encourage you to just flip through it and look at the art sometime.
- Comment on Anime Fall Season and 2025 Year-End Discussion [2026, Week 1] 1 week ago:
I also loved Bravern. It’s actually crazy how consistently excellent their shows have been.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 01] 1 week ago:
Just finished reading Magic Knight Rayearth. The story was decent. The art was gorgeous. It made me wish Lord of the Rings was illustrated by CLAMP. Currently reading Magic Knight Rayearth 2.
- Comment on Anime Fall Season and 2025 Year-End Discussion [2026, Week 1] 1 week ago:
There were a few things that exceeded my expectations:
- CITY THE ANIMATION was the only anime to ever overwhelm my ADHD to the point where I felt like I was looking at too much stuff rather than not enough
- DAN DA DAN Season 2 elevated one of my least favorite fights in the manga (the one in the music room) to the same incredibly high level as all the others in that wild show
- SANDA delivered the highest “what the fuck” to runtime ratio out of anything I’ve ever seen
- Takopi’s Original Sin made me sad
- The Summer Hikaru Died proved to me that it is possible to make a good horror anime
- Apocalypse Hotel solidified Cygames as one of my favorite studios of all time
- bâan: The Boundary of Adulthood gained my respect as a project that was made with the goal of making something cool even if they lost money doing it
- Medalist only had a good adaptation (as opposed to some of the incredible ones above), but it had such a fun story and characters I found myself loving it anyways
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux redesigned the guncannon to not look dopey (before/after)
- Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express made the banter in every other show feel stiff and unnatural by comparison
- Umamusume: Cinderella Gray delivered a horse girl idol performance that actually had me laughing and enjoying myself rather than wondering why they bothered
Honestly there was a lot to love this year. I’ll be delighted if next year is just as good.
- Comment on Ruri Dragon Anime Officially Announced! | Studio: KyoAni 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that I think they’ll do a bad job. Quite the opposite! It’s more that even if they do a great job I don’t feel like that would provide an experience sufficiently different from the manga to justify my time when there’s so much great stuff constantly coming out these days.
- Comment on Ruri Dragon Anime Officially Announced! | Studio: KyoAni 2 weeks ago:
The manga is good, but I wouldn’t say it’s great and tbh I’m not sure animation will elevate this enough for it to be worth my time to experience the story again.
- Comment on The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Teaser Visual 2 weeks ago:
Glad to hear it did well in Japan; I really enjoyed it!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 52] 2 weeks ago:
Glad to hear I’m not the only one reading manga for Japanese practice here! If there’s a passage you’re having difficulty with please don’t hesitate to send me a dm about it!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 52] 2 weeks ago:
Just finished volume 9 of Daemons of the Shadow Realm and I’ve got to say it’s really good. I think I might actually like it more than its more famous older sibling, Fullmetal Alchemist. It’ll be impossible to tell until it’s complete of course, but at the least I think it gets off to a stronger start. The anime will definitely be one to look forward to this spring, though the subtitles in the trailer have me worried that the localization might be a little lazy and flavorless.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 52] 2 weeks ago:
Now that I’ve read Dogsred (same mangaka) I really want to get into Golden Kamuy but unfortunately I just don’t see myself catching up by the start of the season - or even the end of it tbh.
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 52] 2 weeks ago:
Things I’m excited for this season, in descending order:
- Medalist S2
- a pretty wide gap tbh
- Frieren S2
- Jujutsu Kaisen S3
- Oshi no Ko S3
So why the wide gap? I liked the beginnings of those last three shows quite a lot, but I’ve read the manga for all of them and IMO they all go downhill as they go on. Also, Medalist really is just that good. It’s a great story with a decent adaptation and I’ll take that over a decent story with a great adaptation any day. And who knows, maybe Season 2 will fix some of the minor issues Season 1 had - in particular I’d appreciate it if they could make the spins look better. Guess we’ll find out!
- Comment on [Episode] Mechanical Marie • Kikaijikake no Marie - Episode 12 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I think the first half of the episode would’ve been really fun if they’d spent more than $8 making it. I liked the diegetic piano though!
As for the show overall, it was okay. The only part of the adaptation I liked was Marie’s and Marie 2’s voice acting though. Apart from that I mostly wish I spent that time on the manga instead.
- Comment on The wheels of fate can be harsh 3 weeks ago:
Apart from “sucks to be an orphan” which really doesn’t tell us much I don’t think we know much about the world of Made in Abyss apart from the contents of the hole.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 51] 3 weeks ago:
Sanda seems cool, but I’ve only seen the first few episodes and I don’t think it’s on CR or Netflix. Apart from that my fall 2025 recommendation is to get caught up on other stuff. Here are a few of my favorites that are on Crunchyroll:
- Yakitate!! Japan
- Akira
- Dan Da Dan
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Gurren Lagann
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War
- Skip and Loafer
- Brave Bang Bravern!
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
- Mobile Suit GUNDAM Iron Blooded Orphans
- Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- Ping Pong the Animation
- Record of Lodoss War
- Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
- STEINS;GATE
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Apocalypse Hotel
- Gunbuster
- Eureka Seven
- Mob Psycho 100
- Nichijou
- Code Geass
- Cowboy Bebop
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 51] 3 weeks ago:
Finished my Gundam 00 rewatch. Overall it holds up well. I might be the only person who likes season 2 more than season 1 though! I also watched the Gundam 00 movie for the first time. I’d say I liked it about as much as the TV series. I would go into details on why but that’s spoilers and spoilers are a massive pain on this platform so I won’t bother.
Since I was in a Gundam mood I also watched the SEED Freedom movie. I thought it was kinda bad. Not as bad as SEED Destiny because that would take some real effort, but still worse than SEED itself. Gotta admire the director’s dedication to horniness. Never gotten such a view of a woman’s ass while she was sitting in a chair before. How does that even work? Anyways, decent action but horrible plot. Also, I could’ve sworn the guns that shoot green lasers were also making Imperial Tie Fighter laser noises. I need to do a side-by-side comparison.
I felt like doing more anime things, so inspired by the Quest for the Best podcast I watched my first Uma Musume thing: the Beginning of a New Era movie. It was really well-made. The characters were fun. The story was well-written. Absolutely no complaints about the animation. I think I just fundamentally don’t care even one iota about horse racing or idols, so the movie fell a little flat for me. I still enjoyed it, just not nearly as much as some others seem to have.
- Comment on [Episode] Mechanical Marie • Kikaijikake no Marie - Episode 11 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Wow, he really just dumped her in the bathtub with her towel. I know that was supposed to be a serious scene and I guess there are important modesty reasons for doing it (but then why have this happen in the bathroom in the first place) but I was distracted by the sopping-wet towel the whole time.
Anyways, I wasn’t sure what I expected Marie to do here but infiltrating the ranks of the assassins wasn’t even on the list!
- Comment on until next year 4 weeks ago:
I think trying to catch up to the anime would be basically impossible but 1100+ chapters of a weekly manga is just barely doable. Could easily go through 50+ a day.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 4 weeks ago:
The translator would have to know enough Japanese to not just step in, but to verify every word that gets translated. At that point you’re not really saving much on either skill or time by using machine learning tools.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 50] 4 weeks ago:
I (finally) finished my re-read of Kaguya-sama: Love is War this morning. Wow! What an amazing manga. Aka Akasaka is really good at writing fun characters and putting them in fun situations. A little less good at writing really serious stuff, which drags down certain parts of the manga, but only maybe 10% of it. Overall it’s still my favorite romcom by a wide margin. Maybe when I finally read Wotakoi that’ll change, but for now it’s time to finish Daemons of the Shadow Realm/Yomi no Tsugai.
I started Daemons of the Shadow Realm when I was hanging out at the International Manga Museum in Kyoto. This one was written by the same mangaka who wrote Fullmetal Alchemist, and it shows! Anyways, I’m a quarter of the way through volume 2 and so far it’s been fun. I guess I’ll report back in a month or two once I’ve finished the 10 volumes I brought back with me from Japan.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 4 weeks ago:
Any 2-bit translator can crank out what they are putting out with raws, screenshots, and voice to text
Have you tried? These tools might not be up to the standard you think. Not even Youtube’s autotranslate stuff is actually any good.
- Comment on “Code Geass Hoshi Oi no Aspar” Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) 5 weeks ago:
I only ever watched the original series. Is any of the rest of it any good?
